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  1. Shirts!

    Just got back from an afternoon with Suzanne Gutierrez and a trip to visit Renee of Airship Printing, who will graciously be making my shirts for Albuquerque Comic Expo. 

    You’re going to love the shirts! We’re doing a discharge printing method on some super soft/comfy Tri-blend and 50/50 blend shirts giving each shirt a very unique look. I’ve become somewhat of a t-shirt snob. Cotton shirts are so blah and end up feeling like you’re wearing burlap so we’re doing some great, comfy, SMOOVE t-shirts that are going to look pretty darn cool too!

    We’re doing a small run of about 100 shirts with sizes ranging from S-XXL and colors being Charcoal or Green. Super small print run exclusive to ABQ Expo! 

    When I get some proofs back I can take some advance orders and what not. 

    Excitement!

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  2. I will be a the Albuquerque Comic Expo June 8-10! I’ll be there making sketches, selling Starkers Spang, Puddingstone Institute Color-Me-In Field guide, some prints, and some shirts! Come and visit! I’ll be hanging sharing table E19 with my good friend and frequent collaborator Jeremy Owen of Burly Press. We’re table neighbors to some of my personal comic heroes so this is going to be fun.

    I will be a the Albuquerque Comic Expo June 8-10! I’ll be there making sketches, selling Starkers Spang, Puddingstone Institute Color-Me-In Field guide, some prints, and some shirts! Come and visit! I’ll be hanging sharing table E19 with my good friend and frequent collaborator Jeremy Owen of Burly Press. We’re table neighbors to some of my personal comic heroes so this is going to be fun.

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  3. And here’s the final of my Cybermen commission. Ink and brush 12x17. I went for the non-Cybus branded look on the chest plate and stuck with the more modern rendition of the Cybers. I have some other sketches of the older incarnations so I might do some sort of evolutionary illustration at some point. Oh, and it’s my first Doctor Who related commission/fan art. I seriously need to do more of these!

    And here’s the final of my Cybermen commission. Ink and brush 12x17. I went for the non-Cybus branded look on the chest plate and stuck with the more modern rendition of the Cybers. I have some other sketches of the older incarnations so I might do some sort of evolutionary illustration at some point. Oh, and it’s my first Doctor Who related commission/fan art. I seriously need to do more of these!

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  4. Here’s some process on a Cybermen Commission for my friend Jeremy. Starting with a small ink study of the face that I quite rather liked, the layout sketch (from 3 years ago…eesh) and then some progress on the final. Was a lot of fun as I happen to love the subject matter! While I was working on it the Cyber’s unison stepping noises (kutch-kutch-kutch) filled my head.

  5. FULL BLEED! Airship Printing will be doing an exclusive and extremely limited production run of this white ink on black shirt based on my t-shirt design about the joy of reading comics, “Full Bleed”. This shirt will be available exclusively at the Starfest convention and will be sold at the Siouxsiequeue Booth. Prices will be announced soon! 

    FULL BLEED!

    Airship Printing will be doing an exclusive and extremely limited production run of this white ink on black shirt based on my t-shirt design about the joy of reading comics, “Full Bleed”. This shirt will be available exclusively at the Starfest convention and will be sold at the Siouxsiequeue Booth. Prices will be announced soon! 

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  6. Here’s the cover to the screenplay of The Stink of Flesh, a post-apocalyptic zombie movie that’s very close very close to my heart. It was written and directed by my pal Scott Phillips, featured two of my best friends, and it’s also the reason I met my wife.  The photo gag from the Gimme Skelter cover is used again to make the two screenplays feel like they’re part of series. If you’ve ever seen the movie (or read the screenplay) you’ll enjoy the cover a whole lot more as it’s the wall of a prominently featured “locale” in the movie. Try and find the movie as it’s out of print (and if you look in the special features on the disc you’ll see me in one of the documentaries at the Guild Theater) but go here to buy the screenplay on Amazon!

    Here’s the cover to the screenplay of The Stink of Flesh, a post-apocalyptic zombie movie that’s very close very close to my heart. It was written and directed by my pal Scott Phillips, featured two of my best friends, and it’s also the reason I met my wife. 

    The photo gag from the Gimme Skelter cover is used again to make the two screenplays feel like they’re part of series. If you’ve ever seen the movie (or read the screenplay) you’ll enjoy the cover a whole lot more as it’s the wall of a prominently featured “locale” in the movie.

    Try and find the movie as it’s out of print (and if you look in the special features on the disc you’ll see me in one of the documentaries at the Guild Theater) but go here to buy the screenplay on Amazon!

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  7. It’s up for sale now so I can finally share this with you! I recently did the digital book cover for the Original Screenplay of Scott Phillips’s Gimme Skelter! The script is up for sale or lending on Amazon for the price of a latte, so snap it up! Sadly the movie it’s based on is out of print in the US and is scarce. Scour the ends of the Earth for it! The film’s (and therefore, the screenplay )about a man who claims to be the bastard son of Charles Manson as he and others aligned to his cause descend on a small town in New Mexico to break Manson’s “kill record”. Things go awry as they soon learn that they are not the strangest things in town. As for the book cover, I had a blast aging and tattering the actual set photos (taken by my friend Jeremy Owen). Another similar project is on the horizon so keep your peepers peeled for peeping.

    It’s up for sale now so I can finally share this with you! I recently did the digital book cover for the Original Screenplay of Scott Phillips’s Gimme Skelter! The script is up for sale or lending on Amazon for the price of a latte, so snap it up! Sadly the movie it’s based on is out of print in the US and is scarce. Scour the ends of the Earth for it!

    The film’s (and therefore, the screenplay )about a man who claims to be the bastard son of Charles Manson as he and others aligned to his cause descend on a small town in New Mexico to break Manson’s “kill record”. Things go awry as they soon learn that they are not the strangest things in town.

    As for the book cover, I had a blast aging and tattering the actual set photos (taken by my friend Jeremy Owen). Another similar project is on the horizon so keep your peepers peeled for peeping.

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  8. Here are a few explorations of Dream from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. All in preparation for a new tattoo design. I quite like the hoodie look on Dream, don’t you? More to come.

    Here are a few explorations of Dream from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. All in preparation for a new tattoo design. I quite like the hoodie look on Dream, don’t you? More to come.

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  9. Another Rifts portrait. This time my friend Dan’s mysterious character Galeel, who only speaks in Haiku.

    Another Rifts portrait. This time my friend Dan’s mysterious character Galeel, who only speaks in Haiku.

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  10. First of many Character Portraits for my friends’s Rifts Characters. This is Ma’Mun, Jesse’s Ley Line Walker. 

    First of many Character Portraits for my friends’s Rifts Characters. This is Ma’Mun, Jesse’s Ley Line Walker. 

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  11. A warm-up with one of my friend Jesse’s Rifts RPG character, Ma’Mun the Ley Line Walker. There’s a version with finished typography attached coming soon. Probably more things like this on the way as I quite enjoyed it.

    A warm-up with one of my friend Jesse’s Rifts RPG character, Ma’Mun the Ley Line Walker. There’s a version with finished typography attached coming soon. Probably more things like this on the way as I quite enjoyed it.

  12. A Mysterious Shirt of Mystery! Here’s a context-less t-shirt commission I did for Carl Lanore over at superhumanradio.com Check out his podcast series and check in soon to find out the punchline when the Shirt goes on sale! 

    A Mysterious Shirt of Mystery! Here’s a context-less t-shirt commission I did for Carl Lanore over at superhumanradio.com Check out his podcast series and check in soon to find out the punchline when the Shirt goes on sale! 

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  13. Here’s a better pic from the tattoo artist herself! robotattoos: this is suzanne’s tattoo of Death from the Sandman comics, designed for her by illustrator and fellow RMCAD alum Greg Freeland. he’s got a comic book coming out, someday, so keep tabs on him. it was awesome working on a tattoo designed by a great artist, (ie it makes my life easier!) and tattooing on a brave and stoic lady!  so many collabs lately…

    Here’s a better pic from the tattoo artist herself!

    robotattoos:

    this is suzanne’s tattoo of Death from the Sandman comics, designed for her by illustrator and fellow RMCAD alum Greg Freeland. he’s got a comic book coming out, someday, so keep tabs on him. it was awesome working on a tattoo designed by a great artist, (ie it makes my life easier!) and tattooing on a brave and stoic lady! 

    so many collabs lately…

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  14. Yesterday my friend got the tattoo I designed! The tattoo artist was Christel at Electric Quill (A PHENOMENAL ARTIST and fellow RMCAD school chum). She took my design and made some necessary changes to adapt it to the tattoo medium. Gone went the negative space and in came some KILLER shading values. I was pretty fascinated by the whole process and thoroughly documented it. You can compare it to the original design here. After the tattoo, Christel and I shared a proud porn star elbow bump over our collaboration. Okay, now who else wants a tattoo designed? Let’s just keep this going!

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  15. Here’s a tease of my current project. I’m doing 26 illustrations of various monster and cryptozology critters for… a reason. More on this story as it develops!

    Here’s a tease of my current project. I’m doing 26 illustrations of various monster and cryptozology critters for… a reason. More on this story as it develops!

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